ESRC-DFID grant-holder, Ben Campbell, highlights how energy resilience narratives are providing culturally nuanced information on poor peoples' energy needs, vulnerabilities and precarities.
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Posted: 14th January
Posted: 8th January
Conference Director, Dr Vicky Johnson outlines her key learnings from the Power of Partnership: Research to Alleviate Poverty event hosted by the ESRC-DFID Strategic Partnership which took place in Delhi in December 2018.
Posted: 7th January
As a funder of research, assessing the quality of that research is of course on the top of our minds. We have well-established criteria and matrices: not that they provide infallible truths, but peer reviews if managed well give us very reliable assessments.
Posted: 20th December
Kelly Shephard (IDS) explores the role of storytelling in research and shares videos and impact stories from the 'Power of Partnership' event which took place in Delhi, India from 3 - 5 December 2018.
Posted: 17th December
Whether you are running an event or want to disseminate research outcomes, finding accessible ways to engage your audience and spread the word is a concern of researchers and organisations alike. Creating a visual summary of your key messages provides people with a quick, accessible and engaging way to see what you are saying, but are visuals always the right choice?
Posted: 12th December
The Celebrating Impact Prize is the UK's Economic and Social Research Council's annual opportunity to recognise and reward ESRC-funded researchers who’ve created, or enabled, outstanding impact from social scie
Posted: 12th December
What happens when you take the worldwide television phenomenon of Dragons’ Den - known in many countries as Shark Tank – and swap business entrepreneurs for social scientists, and business tycoons for donors and policy actors?
Posted: 4th December
The ‘Power of Partnership: Research to Alleviate Poverty’ conference took place this week in Delhi, India.
Posted: 3rd December
The ‘Power of Partnership: Research to Alleviate Poverty’ conference recently took place in Delhi, India from 3-5 December.
Posted: 29th November
The 'Power of Partnership: Research to Alleviate Poverty' conference (3-5 December, New Delhi, India) of academics, practitioners, knowledge brokers, policy actors, and donors from the international community will extend learning and ongoing innovation across regions and projects. Much of the research presented has been co-constructed and co-delivered through innovative local and global partnerships committed to inclusivity and engagement with policy and practice.